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Don't vote! Play the lottery instead.
May 15, 2006 15:37
Let's suppose you live in Florida and that Florida's 6 million voters are statistically evenly divided - meaning that each of them has (as far as you know) exactly a 50/50 chance of voting for either Bush or Kerry - the statistical equivalent of a coin toss. Then the probability you'll break a tie is equal to the probability that exactly 3 million
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talythius
May 15 2006, 21:45:11 UTC
that's beautiful.
I never liked those lines anyway.
and scratching paper is actually pretty entertaining.
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I never liked those lines anyway.
and scratching paper is actually pretty entertaining.
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